In message , Doug Henwood
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> I'll bet Gillott
>& Kumar's book doesn't contain anything like a critique of technology, and
>though MR furiously dissents from the rest of the LM package, I'll bet they
>(as would many leftists) published the book because they were all too
>h
At 11:29 22/12/97 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Following in this morning's PEN-L tradition of quoting poets from memory,
>I'll quote Wallace Stevens' "It must be possible. It must!" I keep hoping
>that a more humane social system could appropriate the technical and
>organizational knowledge produce
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1997
Revisiting their own controversial research, a pair of prominent
economists concluded that better data support their original assertion:
Raising the minimum wage moderately doesn't cost jobs. In the new work,
David Card of the University of California
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:26:01 +0100
From: Peter Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Ben Bella on Che
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I found this article on the website of Le Monde Diplomatique and I hope
cdes find it interesting.
Peter Lindgren
ON THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF CHE GUEVARA
Che
Ajit Sinha wrote:
>I think it is problematic to separate 'technology' from the relation under
>which that 'technology' was developed. If capitalist relation could not
>work with feudal technology, then how come socialist relation could work
>with capitalist technology? I think a critique of techn
At 10:22 AM 12/23/97 -0800, Michael Perelman wrote:
[SNIP]
> Those who have studied the development of agricultural technology know full
>well that if field work did not require considerable human decision making, it
>would have been mechanized long ago. The tomato is a perfect example. Many
>t
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1997:
Four years after the North American Free Trade Agreement opened borders
for freer movement of capital, reshaping the continent's industrial
landscape, labor is belatedly forging its own cross-border alliances.
And the new ties are changing the way unio
A faculty member in our Women's Studies cirriculum is on a county gender-
discrimination committee and asked me for a good source on how
discrimination shifts social costs. She wants to struggle to include one
paragraph on this into the committee's report because most of the
recommendations of th
Here is another short section of my forthcoming book:
Class Struggles in the Information Age. It concludes the first chapter, which
is a critique of the idea of an information economy. I tried to provide a
critique of those who would dismisss the value of "primitive" technology. It
is only a he
>I think it is problematic to separate 'technology' from the relation under
>which that 'technology' was developed. If capitalist relation could not
>work with feudal technology, then how come socialist relation could work
>with capitalist technology? I think a critique of technology should be put
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